Hello, Is there going to be clustering in some of the next builds? I would love to see OS X be able to cluster with any other mac on my lan. Can you imagine the possibilities?
JH: I'm not involved with any of that, so I really can't comment.
So in other words: Don't imagine a beowolf cluster of these things!
Your "answer" ignores one important fact - that neither the MPEG4 codec, nor the MPEG4 file format are proprietary.
IIRC, Apple went through a long strugle with the MPEG people about liscensing fees. Doesn't that make it a proprietary format? I know it is a "standards-based" format, but it was my understanding that the two were not mutually exclusive.
Show me one gun that has a "reasonable use for defense or hunting" that cannot be used "to kill or assault people".
I didn't mean to imply that the two are mutually exclusive, but that it pretty clear where many guns fall.
An semiautomatic clearly is not intended to help you bag your limit on season's opening. The gun you hunt a deer with won't let you attack someone in an alley way, and good luck getting it past a decent security guard.
A concealed handgun is a gray area, but think about it: you don't need to conceal a weapon to defend your home, and how exactly is a gun a crime deturant if potential criminals don't know the gun is there?
I'm worried Apple may get a little too used to it[abandoning compatibility], as Microsoft long has been.
Apple has two such changes that affected backwards compatability in over 18 years. Windows breaks something at every version, which happens almost yearly now it seems. Apple did have to abandon old outdated code and processors.
The OS X was a novel transition for me... I had to upgrade several apps to work under the new OS.
But by now most OS9 apps need upgrading anyway for compatibility with others. And if you have the latest version of a modern title, then it is probably both OS9 and OSX compatible.
many of us have funky old programs that will never ever be updated
I have not yet run into a program that won't run in classic and has no replacement. Especially since the Open Source community has filled the ranks once occupied by the sharewarers. The costs I've incurred replacing software have been limited to Photoshop 7 (to replace version 3, which actually ran really well in Classic) and InDesign (to replace Quark, which was nice in Classic so long as I hid it to switch apps). Thanks to Apple software deals I paid around $400 and both. Not to shabby really.
I can appreciate the benefits of things like abandoning the 68K
Classic Mode is not a panacea!
I'd comment, but I'm going to play a game of Keys to the Castle right now.
Quoth the 2nd Amendment: A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
The problem with the gun debate is that both sides are afraid to give up any ground to common sense. Outlawing a semi-automatic isn't going to infringe on your right to go deer or duck hunting or even defend your family's home; but the NRA will fight any gun control because they fear that if they give an inch, the government will take a mile. Similarly, a big hunting rifle isn't going to be a threat to your or others' safety on the street, but the anti-gun people can't appear soft on any gun.
Common sense should dictate that guns which have no real purpose but to kill or asault people should be banned. Guns that have a reasonable use for defense or hunting should be allowed.
I think the constitution gives us a decent guide for this with the "militia being necessary" line. Anything you'd let a new recruit in the national guard handle should be allowed. The rest should be restricted to military and law enforcement. You'll never hear anyone lobby for that though; at least no one with enough money.
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So was he (Clooney) a visitor or not?
At the end when he is on earth: yes. (He relives the same scene as the begining and he regenerates) My interpretation is that he is his own visitor. He never got on the ship, he stayed on the space station with Snow's visitor (who is a copy of Snow). He created both the visitor Rhea and the visitor him on earth so that they could be together (that way they are both Solarians).
The kid is the dead team leader's visitor. Remember he shows up in Clooney's dream and says that it is his son, except that the son is back on earth. Yeah, the moment when the dying Clooney and the child are reaching for each others hands is similar to the pose of Adam and God in the Michael Angelo painting (blanking on the name right now). I think that is the moment he creates the visitors.
That's my interpretation at least. I haven't read the book though.
I liked the movie a lot. It had a very interesting visual style. I liked the music and the wordless scenes as well. It was slow at the begining but captivating and it held my interest throughout.
I also disagree with the reviewer that it was a love story. It had a lot of things to think about that overshadow the love story, during the movie and especially after.
How many are "up-and-comers" that just need good word-of-mouth to take over from a proprietary solution?
Here's one: MPlayer (the mac os x port specifically). I am always frustrated at media players on Mac OS X. Quicktime is awesome, but if it can't play it, chances are that nothing can. Except for MPlayer.
I downloaded the cocoa gui app and it works like a dream. I even got my roommate, who is not at all a *nix person, using it. As soon as a version comes out that resolves some file naming issues and provides a gui that lets me never see Terminal, it will be one of your "up-and-comers."
It may not replace an expensive product, but with some luck it will find its way onto every OS X user's dock. And I would call that mainstream.
I think that supporting this service will encourage the continuing price fixing and gouging for music.
The albums on the site average about half the price of the physical versions ($10 compared to $20), even with the loss of value corresponding to the DRM and sampling rate, that is a healthy lowering of price.
I don't mind paying for something, but the middlemen in the music biz add very little value
I don't know about you, but I like to have one stop shopping, and that is a pretty large value to me that middle men provide. Granted, with this we don't have true one stop shopping because it is only one of the record companies, but it is the step toward what many want -- the same convenience of a good p2p except legal.
I think they have a way to go before they truly are competitve. But now there is hope.
The middle men will not go away. Artists will still need huge advertising budgets, expensive studios and the like. The best you can hope for is that the middle men will be kept honest by a more healthy market.
An alternate theory, perhaps. Some drunken teenagers kicked the seismographs?
You know, that's usually what I do for fun. I and 6 of my friends get drunk then each break into the seven nearest seismographic reseach stations. Then (with our watches synchronized) we all kick the seismographs at the same time then again.73 seconds later (cuz lets face it,.72 is just too hard to pull off).
These guys are real proffessionals though, we could never get to an antarctic station.
they could become a "killer strain", vastly more successful?
That wouldn't of really be more successful, though. If right now, they live (usually) harmlessly in the urinary track of every human, then that is a huge habitat. If they start killing off the human race in a plague of bloody toilet water, then they will drastically reduce their habitat, perhaps even killing off so many hosts that they will no longer be spread.
Think about it, as a species which is better, small pox or the common cold?
(and yes, I know that viruses are not life, therefore not "species" yadda yadda yadda, but the example still holds)
"There are some real challenges in DRM, It's important to protect artists' rights and we want to do that...but no one has been able to make a model that works."
So Apple supports the idea of DRM, just not the implementation?
What is unstated in the quote, but I'm sure understood is that no one will be able to make a model that works.
So, yes, hypothetically Apple supports DRM, it's just that this hypothetical is impossible.
This happened to my roommate sort of:
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... an ant got into his 22-inch cinema display. We couldn't figure out how it got in there. At first we tried to scare it out by stalking it with the mouse. It quickly learned, however, that the moving mass of black pixels could not hurt it.
Then we tried the visualizer, which really freaked it out. it was running all over trying to get away from the waves of color. We didn't see it again after that, so either we had finally coerced it into leaving or it dropped dead of a seizure.
It is also clear from the list that EMI believes none of us have any interest in... any artists that has had a major new album in the last two years
Ummm... Norah Jones, The Vines and Kylie Minogue are in the list you included. You may not like any of them, but they are new and they are major.
You mention AALIYAH as someone "new" but she's been dead longer than these artists have had readio play.
I am really excited to have the opportunity to once again pay for the same songs
It is far more likely that, rather than trying to make you "buy the White Album again" they are simply taking less risk on their new venture. Ever notice how old well-selling CDs don't cost as much as newer CDs? It's because they've already made a lot of money on those albums and can lower the price to possibly get more customers.
Because these old albums would have less profit margin per copy anyway there is less risk. The Beach Boys will still have a huge selling record regardless of whether this blows up on EMI (I don't think it will blow up on EMI in the long run, though it's never fun being the pioneer in these sorts of things)
There is no positive aspect to hate speech, and many of its defenders are closet racists themselves. [emphasis mine]
That statement is hate speech itself. You make a false and hateful statement about another group of people to justify your beleif in your own superiority.
How is prejudice against me because I support free speech any different than prejudice against someone for his or her race, gender, or sexual orientation?
I have only ever had problems with speed while running ICQ. I would watch what I had typed appear letter by letter. This was while I was trying to transfer 2 GB of files over it though.
yes. I know OSX can do ftp and http. Damn firewall.
The following song information tags in the Ogg files are correctly recognized in iTunes: Song Title, Artist, Album and Genre
So will my ratings, play counts and last played features work with.ogg's? I find more and more that iTunes dynamic playlists are a cool thing, and most of mine rely on these tags.
This Central American nation is traditionally the continent's best performer in terms of press freedom. In February 2002, it ceased to be one of the 17 Latin American states that still give prison sentences to those found guilty of "insulting" public officials.
WTF?!? How can a country which only recently allowed basic freedom of press (the right to talk about public officials) be the traditional best performer?
In other news, U.S. reporters have had this right since 1776.
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So in other words: Don't imagine a beowolf cluster of these things!
IIRC, Apple went through a long strugle with the MPEG people about liscensing fees. Doesn't that make it a proprietary format? I know it is a "standards-based" format, but it was my understanding that the two were not mutually exclusive.
Not a troll, just an honest question.
I didn't mean to imply that the two are mutually exclusive, but that it pretty clear where many guns fall. An semiautomatic clearly is not intended to help you bag your limit on season's opening. The gun you hunt a deer with won't let you attack someone in an alley way, and good luck getting it past a decent security guard.
A concealed handgun is a gray area, but think about it: you don't need to conceal a weapon to defend your home, and how exactly is a gun a crime deturant if potential criminals don't know the gun is there?
but i can see your point.
Apple has two such changes that affected backwards compatability in over 18 years. Windows breaks something at every version, which happens almost yearly now it seems. Apple did have to abandon old outdated code and processors.
The OS X was a novel transition for me ... I had to upgrade several apps to work under the new OS.
But by now most OS9 apps need upgrading anyway for compatibility with others. And if you have the latest version of a modern title, then it is probably both OS9 and OSX compatible.
many of us have funky old programs that will never ever be updated
I have not yet run into a program that won't run in classic and has no replacement. Especially since the Open Source community has filled the ranks once occupied by the sharewarers. The costs I've incurred replacing software have been limited to Photoshop 7 (to replace version 3, which actually ran really well in Classic) and InDesign (to replace Quark, which was nice in Classic so long as I hid it to switch apps). Thanks to Apple software deals I paid around $400 and both. Not to shabby really.
I can appreciate the benefits of things like abandoning the 68K
Classic Mode is not a panacea!
I'd comment, but I'm going to play a game of Keys to the Castle right now.
The problem with the gun debate is that both sides are afraid to give up any ground to common sense. Outlawing a semi-automatic isn't going to infringe on your right to go deer or duck hunting or even defend your family's home; but the NRA will fight any gun control because they fear that if they give an inch, the government will take a mile. Similarly, a big hunting rifle isn't going to be a threat to your or others' safety on the street, but the anti-gun people can't appear soft on any gun.
Common sense should dictate that guns which have no real purpose but to kill or asault people should be banned. Guns that have a reasonable use for defense or hunting should be allowed.
I think the constitution gives us a decent guide for this with the "militia being necessary" line. Anything you'd let a new recruit in the national guard handle should be allowed. The rest should be restricted to military and law enforcement. You'll never hear anyone lobby for that though; at least no one with enough money.
that's my two cents. feel free to disagree.
It's all about the Pentiums baby
At the end when he is on earth: yes. (He relives the same scene as the begining and he regenerates) My interpretation is that he is his own visitor. He never got on the ship, he stayed on the space station with Snow's visitor (who is a copy of Snow). He created both the visitor Rhea and the visitor him on earth so that they could be together (that way they are both Solarians).
The kid is the dead team leader's visitor. Remember he shows up in Clooney's dream and says that it is his son, except that the son is back on earth. Yeah, the moment when the dying Clooney and the child are reaching for each others hands is similar to the pose of Adam and God in the Michael Angelo painting (blanking on the name right now). I think that is the moment he creates the visitors.
That's my interpretation at least. I haven't read the book though.
I liked the movie a lot. It had a very interesting visual style. I liked the music and the wordless scenes as well. It was slow at the begining but captivating and it held my interest throughout.
I also disagree with the reviewer that it was a love story. It had a lot of things to think about that overshadow the love story, during the movie and especially after.
Here's one: MPlayer (the mac os x port specifically). I am always frustrated at media players on Mac OS X. Quicktime is awesome, but if it can't play it, chances are that nothing can. Except for MPlayer.
I downloaded the cocoa gui app and it works like a dream. I even got my roommate, who is not at all a *nix person, using it. As soon as a version comes out that resolves some file naming issues and provides a gui that lets me never see Terminal, it will be one of your "up-and-comers."
It may not replace an expensive product, but with some luck it will find its way onto every OS X user's dock. And I would call that mainstream.
The albums on the site average about half the price of the physical versions ($10 compared to $20), even with the loss of value corresponding to the DRM and sampling rate, that is a healthy lowering of price.
I don't mind paying for something, but the middlemen in the music biz add very little value
I don't know about you, but I like to have one stop shopping, and that is a pretty large value to me that middle men provide. Granted, with this we don't have true one stop shopping because it is only one of the record companies, but it is the step toward what many want -- the same convenience of a good p2p except legal.
I think they have a way to go before they truly are competitve. But now there is hope.
The middle men will not go away. Artists will still need huge advertising budgets, expensive studios and the like. The best you can hope for is that the middle men will be kept honest by a more healthy market.
You know, that's usually what I do for fun. I and 6 of my friends get drunk then each break into the seven nearest seismographic reseach stations. Then (with our watches synchronized) we all kick the seismographs at the same time then again .73 seconds later (cuz lets face it, .72 is just too hard to pull off).
These guys are real proffessionals though, we could never get to an antarctic station.
That wouldn't of really be more successful, though. If right now, they live (usually) harmlessly in the urinary track of every human, then that is a huge habitat. If they start killing off the human race in a plague of bloody toilet water, then they will drastically reduce their habitat, perhaps even killing off so many hosts that they will no longer be spread.
Think about it, as a species which is better, small pox or the common cold?
(and yes, I know that viruses are not life, therefore not "species" yadda yadda yadda, but the example still holds)
So Apple supports the idea of DRM, just not the implementation?
What is unstated in the quote, but I'm sure understood is that no one will be able to make a model that works.
So, yes, hypothetically Apple supports DRM, it's just that this hypothetical is impossible.
Then we tried the visualizer, which really freaked it out. it was running all over trying to get away from the waves of color. We didn't see it again after that, so either we had finally coerced it into leaving or it dropped dead of a seizure.
Either way, Ant: 0, iTunes Visualizer:1!
Ummm... Norah Jones, The Vines and Kylie Minogue are in the list you included. You may not like any of them, but they are new and they are major.
You mention AALIYAH as someone "new" but she's been dead longer than these artists have had readio play.
I am really excited to have the opportunity to once again pay for the same songs
It is far more likely that, rather than trying to make you "buy the White Album again" they are simply taking less risk on their new venture. Ever notice how old well-selling CDs don't cost as much as newer CDs? It's because they've already made a lot of money on those albums and can lower the price to possibly get more customers.
Because these old albums would have less profit margin per copy anyway there is less risk. The Beach Boys will still have a huge selling record regardless of whether this blows up on EMI (I don't think it will blow up on EMI in the long run, though it's never fun being the pioneer in these sorts of things)
Without my middle inial: many pages about oe person.
- Jim E. Morrison
It is unsurprising that so many /.ers get this.
No speech should ever be censored, only modded down.
That statement is hate speech itself. You make a false and hateful statement about another group of people to justify your beleif in your own superiority.
How is prejudice against me because I support free speech any different than prejudice against someone for his or her race, gender, or sexual orientation?
yes. I know OSX can do ftp and http. Damn firewall.
So will my ratings, play counts and last played features work with .ogg's? I find more and more that iTunes dynamic playlists are a cool thing, and most of mine rely on these tags.
On OSX there is both ~/.trash and /.Trashes
WTF?!? How can a country which only recently allowed basic freedom of press (the right to talk about public officials) be the traditional best performer?
In other news, U.S. reporters have had this right since 1776.
The World's smallest minivan. Comfortably seats one-twelfth.
Wait, does this mean I could potentially run OS X on my Mac Classic? Time to move out goldfish.
AOL and fast data rates? It'll be a first.
The writer even assumes you are using IE when explaining how to migrate to Windows:
To copy Web Favorites: [...] 2. On the Mac, start Internet Explorer. From the Window menu, click Favorites.
So much for Netscape.